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BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

Hall Capital Partners LLC (HCP) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Kathryn Hall in 1994. HCP advises on and manages multi-asset class portfolios for families, endowments, foundations, and other clients.

Dynamic Signal, Inc. operates as a software company which provides marketing solutions for brands. It offers VoiceStorm, a people powered marketing platform that helps top brands partner with and leverage the social reach and influence of their employees, fans and customers to achieve their branding, marketing and commerce goals. The firm's VoiceStorm includes robust reporting, analytics and ROI dashboards to help marketers track and measure the success of their employee and customer advocacy programs. The company was founded by Russell Fradin, James M. Larrison, Bryan Sise and Steven Heyman in 2010 and is headquartered in San Bruno, CA.

Mellon Investments Corp. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1983, the firm is a subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately held by the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon Corp.) (NYSE: BK). In 2018, two other indirect subsidiaries of BNY Mellon Corp., the Boston Company Asset Management LLC (TBCAM) and Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC, merged into Mellon Capital Management Corp. and the firm was renamed BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. In 2019, BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. was renamed Mellon Investments Corp. Mellon Investments provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advice to both individual and institutional clients.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

ABRY Partners LLC (ABRY Partners) a private equity subsidiary of John F. Stafford Insurance Agency, Inc. founded in 1989 by Samuel Andrew Banks and Royce G. Yudkoff. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

DAFNA Capital Management LLC (DAFNA Capital) is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Nathan Fischel in1999 and is a subsidiary of DAFNA Holdings LP. DAFNA Capital provides investment advisory services with respect to one or more private investment funds.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Osmium Partners LLC is an independent hedge fund management firm headquartered in Greenbrae, California. The firm was founded in 2002 by John H. Lewis to provide investment advice to high net-worth individuals and institutional investors.

Cornerstone Research, Inc. provides testimony, economic and financial analysis to attorneys. Its services include consulting to attorneys, developing case strategies, supporting expert witness, conducting research and analysis, consulting on internal and regulatory inquiries, consulting in motion practice and preparing for deposition and trail. The company was founded by James K. Malernee Jr. and Cynthia L. Zollinger in May 1989 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

The Column Group LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Svennilson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Aegis Sciences Corp. engages in provision of forensic toxicology and consulting laboratory services. It offers Paincomp, Interact RX, Acurise ID, pre natal testing, sports testing, and Pharmacogenetic testing. The company was founded by David L. Black in 1990 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

AH Capital Management LLC (Andreessen Horowitz) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BFA manages assets for US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, multi-asset and index strategies.

Paragon Advisors LLC (dba Paragon Financial Advisors) is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in College Station, Texas. The firm was founded by Shuo Yang in 2007. Paragon Financial Advisors offers personalized investment supervisory services to individuals, high net worth individuals, pensions or profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and business entities.

Fifty Years Industries LLC (Fifty Years Industries) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Ela Madej and Seth Bannon. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lowercarbon Capital LLC (Lowercarbon Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Chris Sacca and Crystal Sacca. The firm is headquartered in United States.

Raine Capital LLC (Raine) is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Joseph Ravitch and Jeffrey A. Sine in 2009. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Raine Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which is principally owned by Raine Holdings LLC. Raine provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to certain closed-end private investment funds and certain open-end private investment funds.

Sky Organics LLC is a family-founded, certified B Corporation™ that creates self-care essentials made with nature's pure and potent botanics. The company is based in Delray Beach, FL, and the CEO of the company is Steven Neiger. The company offers single-ingredient beauty oils and butters, as well as simple ingredient blends for face, body, and hair. Sky Organics is committed to creating simple products made with pure and potent ingredients, and they only include ingredients in their products that have a clear purpose and benefit. The company's products are available nationwide, including on Amazon, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Walmart, Whole Foods, and SkyOrganics.com.

Apertor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

Vicinitas Therapeutics is located in the US. Vicinitas Therapeutics is an American US-based biotechnology company that specializes in developing next-generation disease therapies using targeted protein stabilizers called Deubiquituinase Targeting Chimeras (DUBtacs). The company's mission is to solve critical problems in human health by developing disease therapies against an entire class of previously inaccessible disease-causing proteins.

Frontier Medicines Corp. develops medicines that redefine the course of debilitating diseases. The company was founded by Chris Varma, Daniel K. Nomura and Roberto Zoncu in 2018 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

TOMS Shoes LLC manufactures shoes for men and women. It provides shoes, slip-ons, sandals, wedges, flats, lace ups, boots and slippers. The firm also offers eyewear, bags and coffee products. The company was founded by Blake Mycoskie in 2006 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Nexus Capital Management LP (Nexus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Damian J. Giangiacomo and Michael S. Cohen. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Prudential Private Capital (Prudential Private Capita) is a private equity firm founded in 1925. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.